After The Attack On The Confederate Flag Is Over, This Piece Of American History Will Be Targeted

It is fast becoming open season on symbols, images, statues, monuments, plaques, and people important to, or representative of, the Confederate States of America. The politically correct crowd and the PC enforcers who amplify and intensify its demands are quickly gaining both prominence and power in their accelerating effort to cleanse the South of artifacts and emblems of the Confederacy.

Over the course of the last week or so — as calls for removal of the Confederate flag from public property in South Carolina have grown louder in the wake of the Charleston church massacre — Western Journalism has reported frequently on the controversy. After the White House reiterated President Obama’s belief that the flag belongs not on a public pole but “in a museum,” Rev. Franklin Graham shared his conviction that “it’s time for this flag to be set aside as a part of our history.”

Now, proponents of the PC purge of all things Confederate are widening their sights and expanding their range of targets. Not just in the South but elsewhere across the country, those who view any reminder of the Confederacy as a symbol of hate and a representation of a racist culture are on the march.

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NPR reports that in Missouri, two Civil War memorials that honor those who died fighting for the Confederacy “have become flash points” in the discussion of whether it’s appropriate in today’s America to maintain those reminders of the losing side in the War Between the States.

The NPR report also points out there’s “a looming monument going up near the Texas-Louisiana border” that angers a local NAACP leader named Paul Jones.

“‘It’s glorifying, to me, white supremacy — and the institution of slavery,’ he says.”

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An Associated Press article posted on Yahoo! News notes that, in a half-dozen states, vandals have set about defacing monuments dedicated to soldiers and leaders of the Confederacy.

“The graffiti reflects the racial tension that permeates post-Ferguson America, more than a week after a white man was accused of shooting and killing nine black congregants at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.”

Among the spray-painted slogans on those markers is the now-familiar phrase that you might say has become a battle cry of racial agitators, “Black Lives Matter.”

One leader of the Confederacy who is coming under fire — some might say the most important military commander for the South and possibly one of the greatest American generals of all time — is Robert E. Lee. David Brooks, the so-called “conservative” columnist for The New York Times — a man who makes frequent appearances on network talk shows — is asking whether Lee’s name should be removed from the many schools, buildings, streets, and public spaces where it is memorialized.

Lest you think that this is one man’s curious questioning, Brooks’ opinion in such matters is often the shot heard round the media world and a weapon turned on any conservative with a differing opinion. His writing can become a first cut into controversial issues that eventually bleed out as more and more empowered and emboldened critics take a stab at what Brooks’ has turned into an open wound.

While praising Robert E. Lee for his quality of character, the Times op-ed columnist condemns the famous general for his loyalty to the South.

In theory, he opposed slavery, once calling it “a moral and political evil in any country.” He opposed Southern secession, calling it “silly” and a rash revolutionary act.

…while Lee may have opposed slavery in theory he did nothing to eliminate or reduce it in practice. On the contrary, if he’d been successful in the central task of his life, he would have preserved and prolonged it.

The conclusion that David Brooks draws will, no doubt, serve as an opening volley in the assault by an angry army of others intent on climbing aboard the PC bandwagon that’s now on a fast roll toward its goal of shaming a large segment of America — shaming them into removing any sign or symbol of what Barack Obama continually claims is a nation still sullied by its racist past.

Writes Brooks: “My own view is that we should preserve most Confederate memorials out of respect for the common soldiers. We should keep Lee’s name on institutions that reflect postwar service, like Washington and Lee University, where he was president. But we should remove Lee’s name from most schools, roads and other institutions, where the name could be seen as acceptance of what he did and stood for during the war.”

What do you think? Do you believe remembrances of Robert E. Lee should be relegated to a far lesser place in American history? Join the conversation by commenting below.